Make sure you state what the business benefits are going to be. While the charter needs to state what the new project is going to provide and make some general statements of what improvements might occur. You really need to state benefits in terms of the stakeholders and the organization. In real life your projects are going to be competing with other projects for approval and resources so you need to do your best to provide good clear benefits. You want management to read the charter and understand why it is important to the organization to do the project. You don't want them to read the charter and say, "So what?" "I don't see the benefit." "I see what you are trying to accomplish but I don't see how that benefits the organization." "Why is your project more beneficial than building a new warehouse, or upgrading our manufacturing line, or buying 100 new police cars (I used to work for the Illinois State Police)?"

Preliminary Scope – This is your first opportunity to start defining the boundaries of your project. The scope statement is critical because it states what you are (are not) going to accomplish by doing the project. At this point you are early in the project but, it is still important to begin developing the scope statement as completely as possible with the information you have at the time. At this point the preliminary scope will help you develop your Project Charter. The preliminary scope will provide input to the Project Objectives and Success Criteria portions of the charter. As you get more information later, the scope will most likely change, which is okay early on in the project. You will, later on, halt changes to the scope. Once that occurs, it does not necessarily mean changes will not occur, but if they are going to occur they are going to have to go through a change management process.

Your scope is like the boundary around a sports playing field. Anything inside the boundary is in play (part of the project). Anything outside the boundary is out of play (not in the project). So just are boundaries on a playing field are easy to see and obvious, you need to develop your scope so what is part of the project is easy to see. You can accomplish this by being detailed and specific.

Project Management Plan – The Project Management plan will evolve as you go through the planning process. When you create your first version you are creating the foundation for your complete plan. As you go through the various knowledge areas, you will update the information in the plan and actually refer to documentation you will create later such as the scope statement, risk management plan, work breakdown structure, etc. This document also gives you a chance to lay out the ground rules for some of the administrative processes that will occur in the project (see managerial and technical processes section).

A key component of the Management and Technical Processes is the incorporation of the Deliverable Acceptance Form. This form is used to document whether or not each deliverable produced has been accepted or not and why or why not it was accepted. Having this key piece of documentation is essential for the team so they know whether or not they have completed a deliverable or if they need to continue to work on it to make it acceptable.

Scope Management Plan – This plan discusses scope creation, verification and maintenance. Once very key concept is the scope is not created by the project team alone. It must be a cooperative effort between the project team and stakeholders of the project. One key element related to project failure is the lack of involving stakeholders in the creation of the scope. After all, they will be the ones using the end product so it is critical that they are heavily involved in determining what the project is going to do. While this may sound obvious, it is a common mistake made by project teams.

...﻿Inherit the Wind vs. Scopes Monkey Trial
Bert Cates and John T. Scopes. Two very different people portrayed as one person. One thought the law was unjust and thought that people should be allowed to teach/learn whatever they want while the other just volunteered to test the unjust law and went to trial for it. Inherit the Wind and the Scopes Monkey Trial have a lot of differences. Although the authors told the readers that the play isn’t history, it is easy to tell that the play is inspired by the Scopes Monkey Trial. Changes had to be made to the play or else the play would get boring. Changes in the play added drama, thrill, and excitement. But most importantly, it helped readers better understand the main idea behind the Scope Trial. The changes that were made were all for the best. The changes made the readers think deeper and affected how readers thought. One who learns about the Scopes Monkey Trial and then reads “Inherit the Wind” wouldn’t have the same thoughts. However, the cores of the two are the same. The trial and the play are very different on the outside and similar on the inside and for that reason, it impacts our development of the characters, conflict, and also of the big ideas.
Many changes were made to the play that didn’t happen in the actual Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. One of the many changes that added dramatic effect was just the location of the Trial. In the...

...In a tiny courtroom in the county of Dayton Tennessee, the jury settled into their seats, ready to return the verdict in the most controversial case of the 1920's, the scopes "monkey" trial. Up to this point, the trial itself had been a media spectacle; the lawyers, the witnesses, even the defendant had become media icons in the commercialism of the twenties. The trial itself was set up to be a media demonstration to challenge the constitutionality of the butler act. This act prohibited the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the bible," and in particular, the theory of evolution. the American civil liberties union petitioned for a teacher to challenge this statute; john Thomas scopes, the local high school track coach and science teacher accepted the challenge and stood trial for teaching evolution the previous spring. Over the course of the trial Charles Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, the attorneys on the case, debated each other profusely. Eventually Bryan even testified to the truth of the biblical story, even though he was massacred by Darrow upon examination. Despite all that the trial stood for, the most lasting aspect of the trial was that it brought the media into the courtroom, and the courtroom into the daily life of the American citizen.
The most common association with the trial is as an example of the debates that raged during the 1920's; this case...

...authoritative or governmental personnel, or at different organizations and all of their followers. They had a major influence on the population of the city of Dayton, Tennessee, the entire nation, but most prominently on the Scopes trial itself. Many different kinds of political cartoons were aimed at many different ideas and people during the course of the trial and even in the years after the trial occurred. Political cartoons became a very popular way of expressing contempt or disappointment in the government and in other organizations and people surrounding the trial. Some of these cartoons targeted the city/town of Dayton, Tennessee as a whole, some targeted specific people, while others targeted groups of people or beings.
An example of a cartoon targeting the city of Dayton, Tennessee is shown in example 1. This cartoon was written by Knott and was published in the Dallas News, a local newspaper in Dallas, Texas. In the cartoon, the man represents the city of Dayton and he is using the music box (the scopes trial) and the monkey as publicity to make money for the city. The city of Dayton is using the trial as a publicity stunt and "Playing it for all it's worth." This was also meant to say that the city would keep on going with collecting money off the Scopes Trial tourists until they either had no market and more or until they were run off by officers of a higher ranking than themselves.
An example of a cartoon...

...Scopes Monkey Trial
Toriano Mcafee
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Rona Stuart
Scopes Monkey Trial
Is teaching evolution to children a negative thing? In 1925, there was a trial that took place that has been questioned whether or not the trial was real or staged made to look real. The name of the famous American case is The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes, which had become commonly known as theScopes Monkey Trial. A high school teacher, known as John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. What many do not know is that this trial all the way down to the arrest was planned from the very beginning.
The trial and the planning for this event took place in Dayton, Ohio. The planning started at a local drug store owned by Fred Robinson. “George Rappalyea, a 31-year-old transplanted New Yorker and local coal company manager, arrived at the drugstore with a copy of a paper containing an American Civil Liberties Union announcement that it was willing to offer its services to anyone challenging the new Tennessee anti-evolution statute” (Linder, 2000). Rappalyea, a modernist Methodist with contempt for the new law, argued to other town leaders that a trial would be a way of putting Dayton on the map. As others listened to Rappalyea, including School Superintendent Walter White,...

...denounced this as blasphemy. These traditionalists took the word of the Bible as exact and literal. Nowhere was the conflict between these two parties more highlighted than in the Scopes Trial in Tennessee. John Scopes, a schoolteacher, had been arrested for teaching the theory of evolution to his students. He was eventually convicted (but later released), demonstrating the firm hold that Fundamentalism still had on this country, while also emphasizing the new ways of thinking that had begun to appeal to Americans.
Fundamentalism attributed to the growing rift between rural ("old") and urban ("new") areas. Fundamentalists were very conservative. They believed in a very literal interpretation of the Bible, and therefore were strongly opposed to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Fundamentalists that lived in rural areas saw city dwellers as sinful and disgusting. Since the fundamentalists lived so closely with nature and so far away from the rapidly growing cities, it was difficult for them to abandon their viewpoints for new developments and theories in science. William Jennings Bryan was the leader of the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists had attempted to eliminate the teaching of evolution in schools, and had been moderately successful. This led to the "Scopes Trial." Clarence Darrow represented Scopes. Darrow did an excellent job at showing the nation just how outdated the fundamentalist frameset of mind...

...Traditionalist vs. the Modernist
We live in a society that is continuously surrounded with conflict between religion and way of life. From the very beginning of time, there has always been a battle between the values of religion and those of the individual. During the era of Jesus, they were in a dilemma of following the basic laws of Judaism that had already become outdated by about two thousand years or those of the Romans. Since the development of science in more recent years, issues such as these have come even more into light and relevance. Today the world fights topics such as homosexual marriages and abortion. In 1925, these conflicting ideas were different but on a similar topic, evolution. In the case of Tennessee vs. John Scopes, “the Monkey Trial,” the recent discoveries of Charles Darwin had brought into question, are we related to monkeys? Even though the Butler Act was not scientific and not based on truth, its purpose was to maintain the traditional lifestyles that had been practiced for centuries.
The early twenties were a time of drastic change in the mind of individuals. During this era there was an establishment of two different groups of people, the traditionalist and the modernist. The traditionalist group was older individuals that felt that everything that was valuable and important previously in life was coming to an end. Modernist were those individuals that were younger and did not care about the judgments and opinions...

...The twentieth century Scopes trial may have started out as a simple debate between evolutionists and creationists, but quickly escalated to a debate of historic proportions. The 1920s were times of change in the United States, from women getting the right to vote to prohibition to changes in education, such as the Butler Act, which created unease and animosity throughout the country. The Butler Act of 1925 prohibited the teaching of evolution and any other theories that deny the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible in all Universities and public schools in Tennessee. John Scopes, a high-school biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee decided to test this law. He was found guilty of teaching evolution to his high-school students despite the Butler Act, resulting in a court trial that brought strong personalities of both the North and South into one courtroom. These conflicting personalities brought to light the real reasons behind the intensity of the trial. Fear played a big part in the trial because creationists and traditionalists truly feared the rejection of God, the Divine Creation of man and the Bible because they feared for the morality of civilization. As the times changed there was more pressure for Americans to modernize their ideas but traditionalists believed these changes caused people to stray from the word of God and the Bible and had no desire to change their God-fearing ways. Antipathy was also growing stronger...